Limb-rest for railway travelers



(N0 Niodel.) I P. M. GREGG.

LIMB BEST FOR RAILWAY TRAVELERS. No. 257,862. r Patented May 16, 1882.

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FRANK M. GREGG, or OTTAWA, ILLINOIS.

LlMB-REST FOR RAILWAY TRAVELERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 257,862, dated May 16, 1882.

Application filed June 20, 1881. Renewed April 10, 1882. (No model.)

r ing drawings and letters of reference marked thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which--- Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved limb-rest applied between two adjoining seats 1 of a railroad-car. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1, but with thelimb-rest folded, so as not to interfere with a passenger in the act of taking his seat in a car. Fig. 3 is a like view, but with the two seats thrown into one, or,

in other words, with the back of the seats arranged so that the occupants will face each other. Fig.4is an end elevation of the car seats having their backs arranged as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 5 is a plan view of my improved limb-rest for railroad travelers;

and Fig. 6, a view of a head-rest intended for use in conjunction with my improved limbrest; but this head-rest being independent of my present invention, I make no claim to it in 0 this patent.

The object of my invention is to provide means whereby the ordinary seats of passenger-cars of railroads may be made available for comfortable sleep and rest when occupied 5 by one person, and the person in a recumbent position.

In the drawings, A indicatesapieee ofstrong cloth, (that known as ticking, for example, will answer a good purpose,)'of a width about 40 equal to the space between two adjoining carseats, as represented in the figures, and of the length of a car-seat. The cloth A, as indicated in Fig. 5, has its longitudinahedges sewed around cords B, and in such manner as will 5 readily allow the cloth to be slid along the cords, and so be made to assume a folded condition, as indicated in Fig. 2, when my said limb-rest is applied between two adjoining car-seats, as represented in said figure. The

cords B B at each 'end are provided with hooks b, so that when the cords B have been wound around the stanchions or arm-rests a of the car-seats D D, as represented in Figs. 3 and 4, thehooks may then be made to engage with the cords, as shown, and thus maintain the wound condition of the cords, and at the same time hold the cloth A stretched between the seats, as shown.

In Figs 1, 2, and 4 the backs d of the car seats D D areso arranged that a person, as at D will face the back of the seat D in front of him, and when the backs d are thus arranged one full-grown person only can with comfort recline upon the seat D and have his limbs supported upon the cloth or canvas A fastened to and between the seats, as shown; but when the back 01 of the seat 1) is reversed, as represented in Fig. 3, and the two seats thrown into one, or in such relation that the occupants thereof will face each other, then in such condition of the backs d d, as

shown in Fig. 3, two persons, as shown in said figure, may recline, one upon seat D and one upon scat D, and with their lower limbs resting upon a single support, A, and thus my limb-rest will answer the requirement for rest and sleep of two persons instead of one.

It will thus be seen that when the limbrest is attached to the seats, as shown, its upper surface will be on aboutthe same horizontal plane as the seats, and thus afford an easy and comfortable support for the limbs of a person when in the recumbent position shown in Figs. 1 and 3, and that when not in use for sleeping in such positions the cloth A may he slid back out of the way of an occupant ofthe seat D, or of the seats D and D, and in a folded condition, as represented in 'Fig. 2.

By my limb'rest a great want of the traveling public is supplied-4o wit, an inexpensive article which can readily be carried in the pocket of the traveler and be used for sleep and rest in connection with the ordinary seats of a railway passenger-car, so as to support the limbs of a person when reclining upon such seats.

By attaching the cords at a higher point of the stanchion the limb-rest may be used as a. baby-hammock or asa table.

I claim- As a new article of manufacture, the portable car-seat limb-rest, comprising the canvas joining seats when not in use or unoccupied, portion A, adapted to fill the space between substantially as described.

two car-seats, the cords B B, provided with Signed in presence of two subscribing wit- A hooks b b, and loosely confined by the side nesses.

5 edges of the canvas, so that the canvas can be Witnesses: FRANK M. GREGG.

slid along upon the cords and compressed H. O. HADLEY, into a compact condition atone end of two ad- THOMAS HEDGE, Jr. 

